Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 406 439 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.73% 12.05% 16.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.58% 39.69% 47.96%
Number of salaries quoted 308 309 264
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,007
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,600 £89,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,209 1,106 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.98% 30.36% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 626 607 541
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,455 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -3 116 £55,000 +10.00% 176
Cambridgeshire +11 100 £40,000 -15.79% 110
Essex -8 73 £32,500 -36.27% 136
Bedfordshire +6 54 £30,750 -38.50% 102
Suffolk +6 40 £47,500 +43.94% 56
Norfolk -10 19 £60,000 +87.50% 57
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 17
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 49 (12.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (9.11%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.46%) Confluence
4 6 (1.48%) WordPress
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.49%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (12.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (36.21%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 77 (18.97%) AWS
4 76 (18.72%) Entra ID
5 30 (7.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 28 (6.90%) PowerApps
7 23 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (5.17%) Power Automate
8 21 (5.17%) SaaS
9 20 (4.93%) Azure AI
10 17 (4.19%) Snowflake
11 16 (3.94%) GitHub
12 13 (3.20%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.96%) GCP
14 11 (2.71%) IaaS
14 11 (2.71%) Serverless
15 10 (2.46%) PaaS
16 6 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.48%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 76 (18.72%) Firewall
2 37 (9.11%) DHCP
3 36 (8.87%) DNS
4 30 (7.39%) VPN
5 28 (6.90%) WAN
6 27 (6.65%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.17%) Internet
7 21 (5.17%) LAN
8 19 (4.68%) Wireless
9 14 (3.45%) SAN
9 14 (3.45%) VLAN
10 12 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (2.71%) WLAN
12 7 (1.72%) IP Telephony
13 6 (1.48%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.99%) Network Security
15 3 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.74%) VoIP
16 2 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.02%) Power BI
2 41 (10.10%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.42%) Tableau
4 15 (3.69%) MySQL
5 13 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.48%) Redis
8 5 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.23%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.49%) Big Data
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.25%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (5.91%) Git
2 13 (3.20%) JIRA
3 6 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) GitLab
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) NUnit
4 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.56%) Finance
3 18 (4.43%) Law
4 16 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.69%) Retail
6 13 (3.20%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.96%) Automotive
8 11 (2.71%) Multimedia
9 10 (2.46%) Publishing
10 9 (2.22%) Legal
11 7 (1.72%) Back Office
12 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.99%) Marketing
13 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Electronics
14 2 (0.49%) Games
14 2 (0.49%) Local Government
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (21.43%) Analyst
2 58 (14.29%) IT Support
3 46 (11.33%) Junior
4 45 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 42 (10.34%) Developer
6 40 (9.85%) Junior Analyst
7 38 (9.36%) Senior
8 36 (8.87%) Support Analyst
9 33 (8.13%) Architect
10 31 (7.64%) IT Engineer
11 30 (7.39%) Support Engineer
12 27 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
13 23 (5.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 20 (4.93%) Data Analyst
14 20 (4.93%) Junior Data Analyst
14 20 (4.93%) Junior Security Analyst
14 20 (4.93%) Security Analyst
15 19 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.87%) .NET
2 24 (5.91%) CSS
3 18 (4.43%) React
4 13 (3.20%) HTML
4 13 (3.20%) jQuery
5 11 (2.71%) Vue
6 9 (2.22%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.22%) Web Services
7 7 (1.72%) REST
7 7 (1.72%) YAML
8 6 (1.48%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.48%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.99%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.99%) Node.js
10 4 (0.99%) SignalR
11 3 (0.74%) Kafka
11 3 (0.74%) Playwright
12 2 (0.49%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.69%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.20%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.71%) IoT
5 10 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.23%) Clustering
10 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.99%) iPad
11 4 (0.99%) PKI
11 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.74%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
13 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 152 (37.44%) Windows
2 115 (28.33%) Windows Server
3 35 (8.62%) Windows 10
4 29 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (5.17%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.68%) Linux
7 15 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (2.71%) Android
9 8 (1.97%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.49%) Unix
10 2 (0.49%) VMS
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.25%) SUSE
11 1 (0.25%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (17.98%) Customer Service
3 69 (17.00%) Agile
4 68 (16.75%) ITIL
5 66 (16.26%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (13.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 44 (10.84%) DevOps
11 43 (10.59%) Analytics
12 40 (9.85%) AI
13 39 (9.61%) CI/CD
13 39 (9.61%) Roadmaps
14 38 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (8.37%) Service Delivery
16 31 (7.64%) Technology Roadmap
17 29 (7.14%) Process Improvement
18 24 (5.91%) Scrum
18 24 (5.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (14.78%) PowerShell
2 58 (14.29%) SQL
3 57 (14.04%) Python
4 47 (11.58%) C#
5 31 (7.64%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.68%) PHP
7 14 (3.45%) Java
8 11 (2.71%) C++
9 8 (1.97%) R
10 7 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.48%) Bash
11 6 (1.48%) VBScript
12 3 (0.74%) Bicep
12 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (18.47%) Azure Certification
2 61 (15.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (9.85%) Degree
4 30 (7.39%) DBS Check
5 26 (6.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 25 (6.16%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 20 (4.93%) CompTIA CySA+
9 18 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (4.19%) CCNA
11 15 (3.69%) SC Cleared
11 15 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (3.20%) A+ Certification
13 12 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (1.97%) MCP
16 8 (1.97%) MCSA
17 7 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.96%) GDPR
2 11 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.23%) QA
5 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.99%) NIST
6 3 (0.74%) SLA
7 2 (0.49%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) GxP
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.49%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.49%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 123 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.67%) Hyper-V
3 22 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (3.94%) Docker
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (17.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.45%) SCCM
3 13 (3.20%) Terraform
4 10 (2.46%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.23%) Ansible
6 4 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.49%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 259 (63.79%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.62%) VMware
3 20 (4.93%) ForeScout
4 18 (4.43%) Cisco
5 16 (3.94%) SAP
6 14 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 14 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.20%) Apple
8 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (2.46%) Workday
10 9 (2.22%) Atlassian
10 9 (2.22%) DevExpress
10 9 (2.22%) HP
11 8 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.97%) Veeam
12 7 (1.72%) Aruba
12 7 (1.72%) Google
12 7 (1.72%) Oracle
13 6 (1.48%) Dell